Mar 11, 2004 - Sale 2000

Sale 2000 - Lot 31

Price Realized: $ 862
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Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
BERCHORIUS, PETRUS. Reductorii moralis . . . libri quattuordecim. Title in red and black with Rembolt device within woodcut historiated border. [4], 365 leaves; lacks final blank. Folio, contemporary blind-tooled leather, badly worn; scattered stains, numerous tiny wormholes generally not impairing legibility, old institutional stamp in blank lower margin of title. Paris: Claude Chevallon, (12 March 1521)

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Moralized encyclopedia of natural science in 14 books by a 14th-century French Benedictine author; a 15th book consisting of an allegorized interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not included in this edition. Adams B812; Sarton III, 454-55.